Financial Implications of Cannabis-Related Businesses

Franklin G. Snyder is a Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Business Associations, Business Fundamentals, and a seminar in Marijuana Law, Policy, and Business. He is the creator of the International Conference on Contracts (the largest annual conference devoted to contract law and pedagogy) and ContractsProf Blog, the blog of the Section on Contracts of the Association of American Law Schools.

Before he entered teaching, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins, where he represented a range of high-tech clients in litigation and transactions. He earned his J.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, and served as law clerk to the Hon. George E. MacKinnon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He later earned an LL.M. in Legal Education from the Temple University School of Law, and he has taught as a visiting professor at the law schools of Notre Dame and the University of Idaho. He is co-author of the casebook American Contract Law for a Global Age and three concise hornbooks for West Publishing, Principles of Sales Law, Principles of Secured Transactions, and Principles of Payment Systems, and is one of the revisers of the forthcoming new edition of White & Summers Uniform Commercial Code. His scholarly articles have appeared in a variety of law journals, including the William & Mary Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, and the American University Law Review.